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- noun Plural form of
leveret .
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Examples
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Firstly, baby rabbits are called kittens, while baby hares are called leverets.
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Firstly, baby rabbits are called kittens, while baby hares are called leverets.
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He asserts, likewise, that in order to gain or strengthen a memory, the meat of capons, leverets, and larks, is of eminent service, and that onions and butter ought to be avoided above all things.
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Then came one of those leverets, the perfume of which
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Lumber pies, with with their own Hares, leverets. hot sauce. dripping.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Lumber pies, with with their own Hares, leverets. hot sauce. dripping.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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In 1896 the writer presented to the Natural History Museum, at Lincoln, a fine albino specimen, also shot in Woodhall, with two small white leverets, accidentally killed in the harvest field at Langton.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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Mice, small leverets, or rabbits, will be found very useful, if roughly stuffed, to place in the mouth or under the feet of birds or small beasts of prey.
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Removes: 23 roast turkeys, 5 leverets, 23 pheasants, 7 geese, 13 dishes of partridges, 5 ditto of wild fowl.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 Various
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They were given to him when they were leverets, as a hare is called during the first year of its life, and he named them Puss, Bess, and Tiney.
Harper's Young People, January 27, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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